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The Grateful Dead<\/a> are a jam band renowned for their musical ability and improvisational skills, and that\u2019s a fact. <\/p>\n But if only the band were that easy to define, as thanks to their on and off stage antics, they\u2019re a group who have more mystery surrounding them than any other act. <\/p>\n It\u2019s this mystery that leads to the creation of some stories on which you can never quite put your finger. The validity of so many of the twisted tales and folklore that the band find themselves in the middle of remains indecipherable. From Donna Jean falling asleep and waking up on stage, the band getting high in Al Gore\u2019s house, or Jerry Garcia eating a cake that was laced with 800 hits of LSD, reading about the Grateful Dead is just as entertaining as listening to them. <\/p>\n Because of all of these out-of-this-universe stories<\/a> that traipse steadily behind the jam band like a drugged-up shadow, the idea that one of their old tour buses resides rusted in a car park in Dallas feels pretty believable. That\u2019s exactly what Rick Fairless would have you believe. The owner of Strokers, Dallas, which already has a lot going for it as a bar, restaurant, tattoo parlour and auto repair shop, Fairless also owns the bus parked in the car park, which was said to be one of the old tour buses of the legends, Grateful Dead, from the years 1967 to 1985. <\/p>\n \u201cJimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and a lot of the big boys back in the day had partied in that bus with the Grateful Dead,\u201d said Fairless when discussing the bus, rumoured to be called Sugar Magnolia, that he proudly displays outside Strokers. It\u2019s filled with concert posters, stickers, and a haphazard array of everything hippy that you would expect from such a period.\u00a0<\/p>\n People frequently go to look around the bus and try to soak in the history of it. In doing so, they try to imagine the plethora of people who must have come on and off, the drugs passed around, the music played, and the ideas shared. This is surely the closest we can come to an actual magic bus, isn\u2019t it? The Who can eat their heart out!\u00a0<\/p>\n
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